Lancaster County Unincorporated, Virginia · District
R-1
Residential, General, District R-1
Dimensional standards
Uses
Permitted by right20
- Agriculture
- Single-family dwellings
- Individual manufactured homes with a permanent masonry foundation, undercarriage removed, a roof pitch of 3:12 or greater, a minimum of 24 feet in width, and declared as real property
- Two-family dwellings
- Boat piers, private
- Churches and schools
- Rest homes
- Clubs and golf courses
- Libraries
- Cemeteries
- Parks and playgrounds
- Home occupations, as defined
- Off-street parking as required by this ordinance
- Accessory buildings
- Boat ramp, private
- County sanctioned public facility
- Community pier
- Sales platform, temporary, with Zoning Administrator's approval
- Service provider installation of single-pole high-speed data communication antennas less than 100 feet in total height with main structure setbacks
- Short-term rental, hosted
Conditional / special use14
- Animal and poultry husbandry on a commercial basis
- Individual manufactured homes not meeting all these criteria
- Boardinghouse
- Bed and breakfast
- Areas of basic seafood processing facilities
- Hospitals
- A professional office, with a limit of one unit and four workers per lot
- Public utility booster or relay stations, transformer substations, cellular and other public communication towers which extend higher than 35 feet above ground level
- Windmills
- Pet cemeteries and pet crematoriums
- Disposal of dredge spoil
- Private Heliports
- Poles not meeting these criteria
- Short-term rental, unhosted
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building within 25 feet of lot line1 storiesStoreysHabitable floor levels. Whether a basement or attic counts is defined by the local code.
No accessory building which is within 25 feet of any property lot line shall be more than one story high.
- Maximum heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first. for public or semipublic buildings60 ft
A public or semipublic building such as a school, church, library or hospital may be erected to a height of 60 feet from grade
- Maximum parapet wall heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.4 ft
Parapet walls may be up to four feet above the height of the building on which the walls rest.
Other
- Minimum width for corner lots125 ft
For subdivisions platted after the enactment of this ordinance, each corner lot shall have a minimum width at the setback line of 125 feet or more.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. on side street for corner lots35 ft
The side yard on the side facing the side street shall be 35 feet or more for both main and accessory building.
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from street centerline75 ft
Structures shall be located 75 feet or more from the centerline of any street or road right-of-way
From the ordinance
5-2-1. For lots containing or intended to contain a permitted use served by neither public water or public sewer systems the minimum lot area shall be 30,000 square feet. 5-2-2. For lots containing or intended to contain a permitted use served by public water or sewage disposal systems, the minimum lot area shall be 20,000 square feet. 5-3. Structures shall be located 75 feet or more from the centerline of any street or road right-of-way, but, in no event less than 50 feet from the edge of the right-of-way. 5-4. The minimum lot width for permitted uses shall be 100 feet at the setback line. 5-5-1. The minimum side yard for each main structure and accessory structures exceeding one-story shall be 25 feet and the total width of the two required side yards shall be 50 feet or more. 5-5-2. Each main structure and accessory structures exceeding one-story shall have a rear yard of 25 feet or more. 5-6. Buildings may be erected up to 35 feet in height from grade except that: 5-6-1. The height limit for dwellings may be increased ten feet and up to three stories provided there are two side yards, each of which is 25 feet or more, plus one foot or more of side yard for each additional foot of building height over 35 feet.